 | | MANAUS, BRAZIL – MAY 06, 2020: A relative prays from a distance at the burial of a Covid-19 victim at a Manaus cemetery. Due to the increased demand for burials, the cemetery is only allowing people to bury family members, and no more than five. The measure aims to prevent the risk of spreading the novel coronavirus. © Tommaso Protti for The Wall Street Journal |
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| Side by side with the first responders at the front lines of the world’s profound challenges are the journalists and photojournalists. They are driven by a solemn duty to see.
Tomasso Protti grabs us by the hand and pulls us into the places we dare not go, and shows us the COVID wards of Brazil. |
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 | | Caregiver washes a child’s hands in Camp 25 before entering a nutrition center. Credit World Vision International. |
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| Understand the connection between water and the coronavirus with Circle of Blue. Here are five things you need to know about Water Access, Sanitation, Hygiene (WASH), and Covid-19. |
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The volume of Covid-19 news can be overwhelming. We've started a live blog, updated throughout the day, to help you sort through it. It's a library for how water, sanitation, and hygiene connect to the pandemic, both in the US and globally.
Featured Covid-19 + water coverage from this week include: |
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Aerial bombardment as part of a years-long conflict has once again upset water supplies in eastern Ukraine, leaving many civilians without running water in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Last month, shelling disrupted the installation of water and sanitation facilities in the Donbas region, an area of eastern Ukraine that has seen repeated disruptions in water service due to damage incurred in a seven-year conflict between the government and Russian-backed groups. The attack in June halted progress on the infrastructure, raising concerns about the spread of Covid-19. |
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What's Up With Water - July 6, 2020
For the news you need to start the week, tune into “What’s Up With Water” fresh on Monday’s on iTunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and SoundCloud.
This week's episode features coverage on Australia, where government authorities announced the first distributions from a federal drought resilience fund that was established in 2018.
Additional reporting looks at Puerto Rico, where the governor declared a state of emergency because a severe drought is affecting the island’s water supplies.
For science news, listen how an international research team found a tight link between rising greenhouse gas emissions, a warming planet, and changes in water availability during dry seasons.
Finally, this week's featured Circle of Blue story reports on coronavirus prevention in Nigeria. You can listen to the latest edition of What's Up With Water, as well as all past editions, by downloading the podcasts on iTunes, following Circle of Blue on Spotify, following on iHeart Radio, and subscribing on SoundCloud. |
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 | | Children play in the alleys of São Paulo’s Portelinha favela, where residents have devised creative ways to channel water and sewage away from their makeshift homes. Here, an old window frame blocks rainwater from flowing into the footpath. Photo © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue |
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| Most of Portelinha’s 3,000 residents live in shanties built from scavenged supplies: scraps of wood, metal, broken window frames, and even old mattresses that provide makeshift walls against the heat of day and noises of the night.
It’s one of countless ramparts on the frontlines of the world’s urbanization. Most people who carve out their lives here migrated from the far corners of the country — some from denuded Amazon forests, others from areas where crops failed during drought. The streets of the slum are named for Brazilian cities and villages that residents left behind in search of jobs and better lives in São Paulo.
Those living in Portelinha are among the roughly 40 percent of the world’s population that are affected each day by water scarcity and pollution. According to a UN-World Bank study, some 700 million people could be migrating — many to cities — in search of water by 2030. |
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